Based on an AITA post I just saw, help me out a second, as an intersex woman who will never conceive. Is there an idea taken as axiomatic that a person who willfully remains absent from the occasion of their partner giving birth is committing an unspeakable moral dereliction?
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It doesn't matter that you can't affect whether the baby is born safely but you can save lives by being a firefighter, deontology says if you're counting the consequences after the event you've already strayed from the path of actual moral obligation
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And this is kind of the thing, most of us have actually been taught to think like consequentialists but in our closest emotional relationships we start thinking in terms of deontology We want there to be duties that apply to us that don't get mathed
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